![]() ![]() By the war’s end a recognizably more modern Europe had been created, but at what price? The Thirty Years' War condemned German Central Europe to two centuries of internal religious division. Wilson Product Details PAPERBACK 30.00 £26.95 27. In a major reassessment, the author argues that religion was not the catalyst, but one element in a lethal stew of political, social, and dynastic forces that fed the conflict. The Thirty Years War Europe’s Tragedy Peter H. Bohemia was ravaged by mercenary troops in the first battle of a conflagration that would engulf Europe from Spain to Sweden. When defiant Bohemians tossed the Habsburg emperor’s envoys from the castle windows in Prague in 1618, the Holy Roman Empire struck back with a vengeance. This book offers the first new history in a generation of a horrifying conflict that transformed the map of the modern world. Wilson’s most popular book is The Thirty Years War: Europe's Tragedy. Wilson has 25 books on Goodreads with 14182 ratings. ![]() A deadly continental struggle, the Thirty Years' War (1618-1648) devastated seventeenth-century Europe, killing nearly a quarter of all Germans and laying waste to towns and countryside alike. Wilson (Author of The Thirty Years War) Peter H. ![]()
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